Boost for Liz Truss as new poll shows nine in 10 voters BACK her plan to freeze energy bills to help families through cost of living crisis

• Nine in ten adults said they backed Liz Truss’s plan to freeze energy prices 
• Two-thirds of voters back the new PM’s plan to scrap the national insurance hike 
• The average household will pay no more than £2,500 per year for their energy 
• The majority support Truss’s plans to scrap green levies on domestic energy 

Voters overwhelmingly back Liz Truss’s plan to freeze energy prices for families and businesses, a poll for the Daily Mail has found.

Nine in ten adults said they backed a cap for consumers, while 79 per cent said they supported a similar policy for hard-pressed businesses.

The survey also found two-thirds of voters back the new Prime Minister’s plan to scrap the 1.25 percentage point national insurance hike.

On Thursday, Miss Truss announced a two-year plan to spare households and firms from crippling increases in energy bills.

Voters overwhelmingly back Liz Truss’s plan to freeze energy prices for families and businesses. Nine in ten adults said they backed a cap for consumers, while 79 per cent said they supported a similar policy for hard-pressed businesses

The average household will pay no more than £2,500 per year for their energy – saving around £1,000 – from October.

Businesses will be helped with a six-month scheme offering equivalent support.

Seven in ten voters supported her policy to scrap green levies on domestic energy bills. Just 6 per cent opposed this move.

The Savanta ComRes poll, which interviewed 2,098 UK adults, also found support for Miss Truss’s plan to cancel the planned increase in corporation tax next year – with 53 per cent backing the move.

The most important factor in how people will vote in the next general election will be the Government’s response to the cost of living crisis, the poll found, with 93 per cent of respondents saying it was a crucial issue for them.

This was closely followed by the state of the NHS (92 per cent), policies on taxation (85 per cent) and the response to the Ukraine war (81 per cent).

A majority of voters said the new Prime Minister should call a snap election by the end of the year, with 55 per cent calling for the country to go to the polls compared with 32 per cent opposing the idea. Among Tory voters, however, almost three in five said a general election should not be called.

In welcome news for Labour, the poll found that 72 per cent of voters – including three-quarters of Conservative voters – support imposing a further windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has for months been calling for the tax to fund cost of living support, and has accused Miss Truss of forcing working people to foot the bill instead.

The poll put Labour seven points ahead of the Tories, with the Opposition on 42 points and the Conservatives on 35.

And Sir Keir was narrowly ahead of Miss Truss – 36 per cent to 33 per cent – when voters were asked who would make the best prime minister. Fifty-six per cent of Tory voters said the committee investigating Boris Johnson over Partygate should not continue.

The Privileges Committee is investigating whether the former PM was in contempt of Parliament by telling the Commons on several occasions that there were no lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street.

The poll also suggested that Miss Truss’s pledge to continue with plans to send migrants to Rwanda is popular with Tory voters.

Two-thirds – 67 per cent – of Conservative supporters said they supported the policy, while almost half (47 per cent) of Labour voters said they opposed it. Overall, the policy has a net support of 47 per cent – while 29 per cent oppose it, according to the poll.

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